Intelligence will just hamper your progress

In the martial arts, the idea is either to feign a move or catch an opponent by surprise. The problem is that your body often telegraphs what you are about to do – your eyes move to the side just a touch, you hunch your shoulders etc. Although I often talk...

Strategy: are you flying blind?

There were six men from Indostan, the most learned of gentlemen, who wanted to expand their knowledge by getting to know elephants more intimately. They excitedly headed out to investigate the elephant up close, irrespective of the fact that they had a most...

The eBay PEZ dispenser story is not true

Life poses an interesting enigma: although we can make the atomic bomb, we still don’t know the answer to simple things, like where do songs come from? Where do ideas come from? The epiphany, or eureka moment, is not what you think – it is not an isolated moment of...